Writer’s Ideas
3. D, A, F, C, B, E
4. The author opinion about capital punishment is that he believes its not the right form of justice. And the incident with the puddle suggest that even with a man about to face his own death, he still conscious enough to avoid stepping into the puddle. Indirectly hinting even a man facing his death is still a living part of this world.
Writer’s Technique
1. That capital punishment in his eyes is a inhuman gesture because a human is breathing, living thing just as we are. Paragraph 10, Sentence 3.
2a. It was about forty yards to the gallows. I watched the bare brown back of the prisoner marching in front of me. The lock of hair on his scalp danced up and down, his feet printed themselves on the wet gravel. All the organs of his body were working-bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming-all away in solemn foolery. The steady, muffled crying from the prisoner went on and on, “RAM! RAM! RAM!” never faltering for an instant. The Superintendant with his hand on his chest, was counting the cries, allowing the prisoner a fixed number-fifty, perhaps, or a hundred. He was dangling with his toes pointed straight downwards, very slowly revolving, as dead as a stone.

2b. And then, when the noose was fixed, the prisoner began crying out his god. It was a high, reiterated cry of “RAM! RAM! RAM!” not urgent and fearful like a prayer or a cry for help, but steady, rhythmical, almost like a tolling of a bell. 2c. The Indians had gone grey like bad coffee. The hangman, a grey-haired convict in the white-uniform of the prison.
2d. Paragraph 3, Sentence 2, “wet air.” Paragraph 9, Sentence 5, “the lock of hair on his scalp danced up and down. Paragraph 10, Sentence 14, “ and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone.
3c. 1. A fish that is powerless and wishing for freedom, maybe to slip